curiously curious; curiosity curiosity, curiosity; treasures, antiques, curios; curiousness studious; curious; unusual
curious pronunciation in French?English [?kj?ri?s] ? Beautiful [?kj?ri?s]?
adj. Curious, thirsty for knowledge; strange, unusual; picky
Word matching:
p>Very curious very curious; actually quite curious
curious about curious; curious; curious about; curious about...
be curious about curious about... ; curious; adjective phrase
Word usage:
curious can be followed by that or wh-clause, in which the predicate verb after that clause must use its subjunctive form; when curious is used as an attributive, most of the time Used in a derogatory sense.
curious is generally not modified by very, and is not used in comparative and superlative forms.
Both curious to know and curious to hear can be interpreted as "want to know...". Curious to relate and curious to say can be used alone, meaning "it's really strange to say". Curious can be followed by an introductory clause such as how, what or that.